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farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:31 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:I've just noticed that one word from the title of No. 2 seems to have slipped through. Ah well...

"waitress" and "cocktail" were obvious enough

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:39 pm

farlukar wrote:
Blank_Frank wrote:I've just noticed that one word from the title of No. 2 seems to have slipped through. Ah well...
"waitress" and "cocktail" were obvious enough

Actually (assuming I have them all right), I could just see the entire song easily in each of these. Not sure if it's because this is too easy or that I have an aptitude for reading these things.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:13 pm

robojam wrote:Actually (assuming I have them all right), I could just see the entire song easily in each of these. Not sure if it's because this is too easy or that I have an aptitude for reading these things.

Yes, you are right...I thought 'Purple Rain' might slow things down a bit, being as the lyrics largely consist of the words "purple" and "rain", so I hoped removing them might make it quite tricky!

Actually, trying to find lyrics with little or no repetition was a job in itself...

Anyway, as it was a new idea it was difficult to gauge how easy they would be to solve...next time it'll be a lot harder.

Over to you, robojam!

[Edit] And one point deducted for including the word "Baby" which isn't in the title - the word that slipped through was "Don't"!

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:27 pm

OK then, keeping to the lyrics theme, here are the lyrics from 5 very well known songs of yesteryear (Number one in both US and UK in 60s and 70s) with every other word removed from one of the lines. Tell me what each song is:

"one on platform other on train"

"I you hold hand got to"

"I the clothes wears the the plays her"

"no can't tomorrow I of your"

"where you if won war"

Edit: *First one changed to correct mistake*

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:44 pm

Shouldn't that be:

"one on platform other on train"

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:46 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:Shouldn't that be:

"one on platform other on train"

Maybe I'm mishearing it then. I think you know this one though, don't you

I'll change it now to the lyrics I see on lyrics sites - I used the lyrics as I heard them first time.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:52 pm

robojam wrote:I think you know this one though, don't you

Maybe...

To be honest I went by the lyric sites, which could always be wrong...and it's a while since I heard it played!

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:55 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:
robojam wrote:I think you know this one though, don't you
Maybe...

To be honest I went by the lyric sites, which could always be wrong...and it's a while since I heard it played!

I didn't check it, but I know the lyrics to it and I wrote them as I sing them, so there's a good possibility that I was wrong.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:35 pm

Did I kill this?

OK, I'll give a small clue - all of them were released between 1964 and 1974, and they are listed in the order of release, earliest first.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:14 pm

robojam wrote:Did I kill this?

Patience...these things can take time. I've got the first four, but now I need to stop and eat something. Hopefully I'll get back to it later!

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:40 pm

Only got three....

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:04 pm

I'll give you the years and a little bit about the artist:

"one on platform other on train" - 1964, British band

"I you hold hand got to" - 1965, US artists

"I the clothes wears the the plays her" - 1966, US band

"no can't tomorrow I of your" - 1971, US artist

"where you if won war" - 1974, non-US, non-UK band

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:31 am

robojam wrote:"where you if won war" - 1974, non-US, non-UK band

...who had a Number One in both the UK and US in the same year? Or have I misread this..?

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:06 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:
robojam wrote:"where you if won war" - 1974, non-US, non-UK band
...who had a Number One in both the UK and US in the same year? Or have I misread this..?

They all did except this one, so I have to correct myself:

Number 1 in UK and number 6 in US.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:41 pm

robojam wrote:
Blank_Frank wrote:
robojam wrote:"where you if won war" - 1974, non-US, non-UK band
...who had a Number One in both the UK and US in the same year? Or have I misread this..?
They all did except this one, so I have to correct myself:

Number 1 in UK and number 6 in US.

Hmmm...Abba's Waterloo gets somewhere close...are you sure you didn't mishear the lyrics?

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